Federal arts chair to tour US for 6 months

The country's top arts official is going on the road.

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Report: NEA communications chief resigns

The controversial communications chief for the National Endowment of the Arts resigned Thursday after drawing fire from Republican senators for recruiting artists to create works that promoted President Barack Obama's policies, The Washington Post reported.

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Broadway producer nominated to lead Arts Endowment

Rocco Landesman, a producer known for bringing such hits as "Big River," "Angels in America" and "The Producers" to Broadway, has been nominated as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Price, Levine, Floyd, Gaddes to get NEA honors

Soprano Leontyne Price, conductor James Levine, composer Carlisle Floyd and administrator Richard Gaddes will be the initial recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors.

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Government Study: Americans Reading Less

The latest National Endowment for the Arts report draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion: Americans are reading less.

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France wants -- intends -- to be a major player in the nuclear power-plant market. The country's main strength is its technical competence... and that resides on credibility. Credibility has a price!

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Here is an illustration of why, in addition to the money, the NEA and the education bureaucracy are so opposed to homeschooling and vouchers..

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A lot of people seemed shocked to discover that the folks at the National Endowment of the Arts were so ready, even anxious, to devote their talents to propagandizing on behalf of Obama and his administration.  That merely proves that a lot of people haven't been paying attent …

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The National Education Association, the organization most identified as the voice of established educators in the United States, is recommending that its members read -- and promote the reading of -- two books by Progressive radical Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals and Reveille f …

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Former actor and present White House associate director of public engagement Kalpen Modi was directly involved in planning the controversial conference call hosted by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) flack to encourage tax-supported artists to create propaganda for Preside …

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From their clandestine headquarters inside a hollowed-out volcano, the Acornistas pursue their NEFARIOUS AGENDA!

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Revolution made simple...

"War is a continuation of diplomacy using other means," said the Prussian military strategist, Carl von Clausewitz.

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Win a $33.18 Grant From the Iowahawk Endowment for the Arts

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Classroom Brainwash? Obama Ditties Cause Angst

To all the parents out there, does the fact that your children might, just might, be learning more at school than "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall" or "Mary had a little lamb" or even "Jesus loves me this I know" bother you to any degree? How about a song or two describing the virtue …

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Color me unsurprised to find out that an employee of Winner and Associates — who you'll recall we revealed were behind the astroturfing campaign to discredit Sarah Palin — was in on the National Endowment for the Arts phone call outlining how the Obama Administration would  …

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White House officials announced Tuesday that it will take steps to prevent a recurrence of a controversial conference call hosted in part by the National Endowment for the Arts that critics argued encouraged artists to produce works that supported the Obama administration's agend …

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The White House on Tuesday instructed government agencies to keep politics away from the awarding of federal grants, a step taken as the administration sought to minimize the fallout after an official at the National Endowment for the Arts urged artists to advance President Obama …

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An August 10, 2009 National Endowment for the Arts conference call in which artists were asked to help support President Obama's agenda -- a call that at least one good government group called "inappropriate" -- has prompted the White House to issue new guidelines to prevent such …

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Through the work of artist and blogger Patrick Courrielche, Andrew Breitbart's new website Big Government—reporting the news so the mainstream media won't have to—has just released a sickening transcript of an August 10 conference call jointly hosted by the National Endow …

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Right wing bloggers are all hyperventilating today over a supposed "scandal" involving the National Endowment of the Arts. The basis of the hysteria is this post over at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site (the same outfit that posted the ACORN "sting" videos).

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We're asking for your help. The Washington Times has obtained a partial list of "artists and influencers" who were participants on the controversial August 10 National Endowment for the Arts hosted conference call.

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So why can't the silver-tongued post-partisan healer seal the deal on this health care business? Surely it should be the work of moments for the greatest orator in American history to whip up a little medicinal Gettysburg, a touch of Henry V-in-the-Agincourt-casualty-tent, and pu …

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The communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts is no longer in his job amid a flap over suggestions he suggested artists work to further President Obama's legislative agenda. A conservative artist writing on the site Big Hollywood first complained that the o …

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Recognized by Congress and held annually since 1993, the month-long celebration grew out of National Arts Week, which was begun in 1985 under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Do you think it is the place of the NEA to encourage the art community to address issues currently under legislative consideration? 

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In math, U.S. high schoolers were in the bottom quarter of the countries that participated, trailing countries including Finland, China and Estonia.

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President Obama singled out California on Friday for failing to use education data to distinguish poor teachers from good ones.

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California could lose out on millions of federal education dollars unless legislators change a law that prevents it from using student test scores to measure teachers' performance,

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The National Education Association needs to leave my kids alone.

Apparently, during this year's NEA convention, a rousing and compelling retirement speech was given by the NEA's General Counsel Bob Chanin. It was heartwarming, charming, and I have to admit, even funny.

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The teacher's union is trying to deny a quality education both to inner city kids and military kids. Why? Because their political power is more important than educating the children of this country.

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